Bug#94342: apt-get loads 2000K when the package is 150K (for example)
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: important
Multiple times now when doing apt-get -duy upgrade
(>100M in total), it said
Get:N ....... VERSION [156kB]
and then proceeded to fetch mutch more than that, showing s.th. like
[N blah 757342/1507kB]
This doesn't happen right away... that also means, if I stop apt-get with an
INT, and restart, it shows the correct download stats.
It only happens after a couple of pkgs have been downloaded...
I wish I could give more info, but unfortunately it seems to be pretty
indeterminate.
There are no *.FAILED pkgs in /var/cache/apt/archives from this... the
packages just vanish on interrupting apt-get, it seems (so on restart it
fetches again from the beginning)
Being on a 33.6 modem line, this is really annoying, as it *really* fetches
stuff... though since it happens to fetch more than the server should give
it, this should be impossible, right?
Guess I'm gonna watch which servers it happens on... could be (or should be,
as the Get:N line seems to get its info from the Packages file whereas the
progress report seems to come from the HTTP transfer (right?))
(If this persists... well, apt-get apparently should check the info gotten
from the server against the info it has. Maybe the first N bytes *are*
the correct pkg...)
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wanderer 2.2.19-wanderer #2 Mon Mar 26 16:20:48 CEST 2001 i686
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010407 The GNU stdc++ library
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